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Is umbo a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word umbo is a Scrabble US word. The word umbo is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

U1M3B3O1

Is umbo a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word umbo is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Is umbo a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word umbo is a Words With Friends word. The word umbo is worth 11 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (2 found)

OMBU,UMBO,

3-letter words (3 found)

BUM,MOB,MOU,

2-letter words (7 found)

BO,MO,MU,OB,OM,OU,UM,

You can make 12 words from umbo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of umbo

umbo mubo ubmo bumo mbuo bmuo umob muob uomb oumb moub omub ubom buom uobm oubm boum obum mbou bmou mobu ombu bomu obmu

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word umbo. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in umbo.

Definitions and meaning of umbo

umbo

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin umbō (“a shield boss”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʌm.bəʊ/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈʌm.boʊ/
  • Rhymes: -ʌmbəʊ

Noun

umbo (plural umbones or umbos or umboes)

  1. (historical) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
  2. (biology) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane.
    1. (anatomy) An inward projection of the tympanic membrane of the ear.
    2. (zoology) One of the lateral prominences just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
    3. (mycology) A bump or protrusion on the cap of a mushroom or toadstool.

Derived terms

  • umbonal
  • umbonic

See also

  • boss

References

  • “umbo”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  • “umbo”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Anagrams

  • ombu

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃émbʰ-on- ~ *h₃m̥bʰ-n-és, from the root *h₃m̥bʰ- (“navel; nave, hub”). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *ambô (“belly; paunch”).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈum.boː/, [ˈʊmboː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈum.bo/, [ˈumbo]

Noun

umbō m (genitive umbōnis); third declension

  1. boss (of a shield etc.)
  2. elbow (or similar projecting part)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Related terms

  • umbilicus

Descendants

  • ⇒ Translingual: Umbonium (genus name)
  • → English: umbo
  • Italian: umbone

References

  • “umbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “umbo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • umbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “umbo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “umbo”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Swahili

Etymology

From -umba (“to create”).

Pronunciation

Noun

umbo (ma class, plural maumbo)

  1. shape, form, structure

Source: wiktionary.org